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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We already have a Linux smartphone OS. It's called ~~Android~~ AOSP (including GrapheneOS, LineageOS, etc).